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HELP! 1 day to register Intention to Marry

  • 22-06-2009 5:59am
    #1
    Mrs_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭


    I made a big mistake - I thought I could register my intention to marry any time within the 3 months of my wedding date.

    I know this to be incorrect now, and I only have 1 day to get everything together.

    Is it even possible?

    I will be meeting church today.

    Luckily I have my birth cert and premarital course work on hand.

    Then I will beg the registrar to see me and try to push the whole thing through.

    Failing this...... what are my options? Please tell me I have some!!!


    Thanks,

    Audrey


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  • #2
    azzeretti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    The registrar will not even entertain you. You could make up all the sob stories in the world, but the truth is that it's the law. You need 3 months notice to marry. You can get around this by getting a court excemption. This is obtain buy going to a court and explaining the situation to a judge who will then allow you to marry early. I have NEVER heard of a judge NOT giving an excemption. Only trouble for you is that you might have the time in 1 day to do this.

    Other than that, have the church wedding (if it is on the church) but ask the priest not the sign anything. Then after the wedding day apply for 3 months and drop in one day to get a civil service....takes about 20 minutes.


  • #3
    bensoneb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭bensoneb


    Try other registrars. I couldn't get an appointment in Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow and ended up in Dundalk. Give them a call and see what they say.

    As well as your birth cert, you need a photocopy of your witnesses passports or birth certs.


  • #4
    Radiotower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭Radiotower


    I left it late too but not as tight as you

    Try ringing all the counties if you have to and see if anyone can squeeze you in.

    Both of you have to be present with birth cert and passport/drivers licence as id. Name and address of priest and church, witness names and date of births (you dont need their documentation). If anything changes in mean time you can get it ammended.

    Good luck


  • #5
    cch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭cch


    bensoneb wrote: »
    Try other registrars. I couldn't get an appointment in Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow and ended up in Dundalk. Give them a call and see what they say.

    As well as your birth cert, you need a photocopy of your witnesses passports or birth certs.

    Second the ringing around, the three months notice can be given at any registrar's office in the country.
    But you definitely DO NOT need your witnesses documentation, you just need to know their names and DOBs.


  • #6
    bensoneb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭bensoneb


    cch wrote: »
    Second the ringing around, the three months notice can be given at any registrar's office in the country.
    But you definitely DO NOT need your witnesses documentation, you just need to know their names and DOBs.

    If you end up in Dundalk like I did, you WILL need the documentation. We were told on the phone before we went that we had to have this with us.


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  • #7
    Diamond Joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭Diamond Joe


    You can get married tomorrow, it just will not be legal.

    Then sometime later just go down to the regisry office and get the paperwork sorted.

    Hope you have a great day - everything will be perfect !


  • #8
    cch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭cch


    bensoneb wrote: »
    If you end up in Dundalk like I did, you WILL need the documentation. We were told on the phone before we went that we had to have this with us.

    Ok, maybe it's something to ask when ringing for the appointment then! We definitely didn't need it in Wicklow.

    OP, did you get it sorted?


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